Exodus 3:8

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Exodus 3:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

10 Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

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Genesis 11:5

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 18:21

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Psalms 18:9

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Psalms 18:10

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Psalms 18:12

From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:13

The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:14

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Psalms 18:15

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Psalms 18:16

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

Psalms 18:17

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

Psalms 18:18

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

Psalms 18:19

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Psalms 12:5

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

Psalms 22:4

In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

Psalms 22:5

They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

Psalms 34:8

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Psalms 91:15

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Isaiah 64:1

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

Exodus 6:6

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6:8

And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

Exodus 12:51

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

Genesis 15:14

But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Exodus 3:17

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Exodus 13:5

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Exodus 33:2

And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

Genesis 13:14

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Genesis 13:15

for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Numbers 13:19

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

Numbers 13:27

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

Numbers 14:7

and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.

Numbers 14:8

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

Deuteronomy 1:7

Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 1:25

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 8:7

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

Deuteronomy 11:9

and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:10

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 11:11

But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:12

It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11:13

So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:14

then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

Deuteronomy 11:15

And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 11:16

But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

Deuteronomy 11:17

or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

Deuteronomy 11:18

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:20

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

Deuteronomy 11:21

so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

Deuteronomy 11:22

For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

Deuteronomy 11:23

then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

Deuteronomy 26:9

And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:10

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

Deuteronomy 26:11

So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

Deuteronomy 26:13

Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 27:3

Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

Nehemiah 9:22

You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Nehemiah 9:24

So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.

Jeremiah 11:5

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

Jeremiah 32:22

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

Exodus 22:23

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Exodus 22:25

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Exodus 22:27

because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 22:28

You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

Exodus 22:29

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 22:30

You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

Exodus 22:31

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 34:11

Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Genesis 15:19

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Genesis 15:20

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Genesis 15:21

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Joshua 9:1

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.